Between 2004 and 2010 I made a series of little films with my friends at Grammar School Pictures. Almost Everything is a feature length film in which my good friend and musical compatriot Joe Ballman plays a boy who spends a lost summer struggling with writer's block. The films This Song, You Are Standing In Front of a Cave, and The End are part of a series of vignettes in which I play a fictional version of myself as a clueless, narcissistic, self-conscious hipster. Finally, in Icebreaker, I play a lighter, more naive version of myself. Many more films from Grammar School Pictures can be found at www.grammarschoolpictures.com.
JIMMY & doug’s farm club (2000)
Back in the year 2000, Pat Gamble and Bob Martin and I were on a U.S. tour as Reclinerland, when we stopped in Los Angeles to be filmed for a music TV show on the (now defunct, I think) USA Network called Jimmy & Doug’s Farm Club. During the afternoon of our Los Angeles show, a film crew let us wreak havoc in L.A. and interviewed us. They even recorded one of our live performances. All of this they crammed into two 30-second spots and aired on national television as filler material after the commercial breaks. No Doubt was the featured live performer of the episode. I remember when this aired. I watched the footage in New York while crammed into a tiny apartment with my friend Chris Punsulan (the IOs) and my then girlfriend Jenny Deller (Future Weather, The Imposter).
Until now, I haven’t been able to locate the video footage, but apparently one of Pat’s relatives taped it. (VHS tape…remember?) So, here it is!